"A lot of money will have disappeared, spent on trying to squeeze performance, any performance, from today’s humanoid robots.

Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks warns that the vision of humanoid robots as general assistants is unrealistic due to a ...

But you can see the market appeal. A robot vacuum cleaner can’t climb stairs to clean an upstairs room. A robot arm that ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, said the idea of humanoid robots as catchall assistants, the ...

One of the most prominent skeptics is robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks, a co-founder of Roomba vacuum maker iRobot who wrote in ...

A venture capitalist is warning investors that the AI robots sector could be experiencing the start of a financial bubble.

Is it possible to have a robot achieve human-level dexterity just by watching video tutorials? To answer these questions, I ...

The commercial boom in AI has sparked renewed interest in humanoid robots. The Humanoids Summit gathered experts to explore ...

The original Roomba was the first robot vacuum in the US, and the second ever made, following Electrolux’s Trilobite the year ...